Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slate Shannon is the kind of guy who could find breathing room in a sealed bank vault. Tough as Mike Hammer, suave as Peter Gunn, canny as the D.A.'s Man, Bold Venture's hero digs gems out of camellia buds, teeth out of the other guy's mouth and dames out of the pad. Before the show had its first airing last month, its sunny, sexy sadism had attracted more than too TV stations. Yet Bold Venture has no network and will never know the mingled joy of a national Nielsen rating. Like many...
When the Fives-Lille-Cail Co. near Lille, France, found its metal business falling short of expectations, it sent out immediate-dismissal notices to 527 employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
...moral evil because it violates the pattern of God, who wants man to work and be able to find, in the fruits of his labor, for himself and those dear to him, the means of living a human life. In a human economy, in a juster and better organized society, there must no longer be room for unemployment...
...notion that the entire progressive period was cynically calculated chaos, begun "consciously and purposely in order to eliminate the power of the old school and undermine the domination of the pre-Revolution intellectuals." U.S. educationists who regarded the Soviet cockroach-hunting interlude as an honest experiment will find Hechinger's theory of planned school-wrecking hard to believe. But plan or happenstance, the effect was of a school system softened to pulp, then reshaped to the form it has had, with some variations, ever since...
...through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...